This exhibition, “The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land,” was the seventeenth exhibition presented by the Museum since it opened in the Keenan-Hartley House in April 2000. Up until then, all our exhibitions had been originated by the Museum, utilizing the donated time and talent of many resourceful guest curators from the community.
Read MoreImages of America’s West as seen through the eyes of Georgia O’Keeffe and other women artists was the focus of the exhibit at the Wildling Art Museum, Los Olivos. More than 30 works spanning the half-century from 1890 to 1940 were on display beginning on March 14, 2004.
Read MoreImages by America’s greatest wilderness photographer were on display at the Wildling Art Museum, Los Olivos, which begun September 28. “Ansel Adams: A Celebration of Wilderness” showcased more than 30 photographs from “The Museum Set”, a collection of 75 images chosen by Adams and printed under his supervision during the last years of his life.
Read MoreLos Olivos ~ Called “Members Collect,” the spring exhibition at the Wildling Art Museum opened March 16 included a group of historic paintings, prints, and drawings featuring America’s wild creatures and wild places borrowed from the private collections of Museum members.
Read MoreThe winter exhibition at the Wildling Art Museum (January 11 through March 7, 2004) featured for the first time the Museum’s growing permanent collection of American wilderness art. Dedicated to a former Board member, the late Bruce S. McCurdy, and entitled “Building A Collection,” the exhibition was intended to both showcase what the Museum acquired thus far in its then short three year existence and to inspire patrons to give additional treasures.
Read MoreLos Olivos ~ Right in time for the holiday season, the Wildling Art Museum in Los Olivos opened an exhibition of paintings, prints, sculpture and photographs featuring America’s wilderness and the “wildlings” that inhabit it, under a blanket of snow.
Read MoreIn keeping with its mission to promote an understanding and appreciation of America’s wilderness through art, the Wildling Art Museum showed the prints of our nation’s best known artist-naturalist, John James Audubon. The Wildling exhibition, entitled “John James Audubon: American Woodsman,” opened on September 14 and continued through December 1, 2002.
Read MoreRay Strong, often referred to as the “dean” of Santa Barbara landscape painting, was the subject of the summer exhibition at the Wildling Art Museum, which opened to the public on June 30. The exhibition of over 35 oil paintings, entitled “Along the Way: Ray Strong Landscape Painter,” had representative works from almost every decade of the artists’ life.
Read MoreOil paintings, watercolors and prints depicting the Central Coast of California between 1836 and 1960 and celebrating “its rural pristine and fertile nature,” were selected by guest curator, Frank Goss, for the exhibition at the Wildling Art Museum in Los Olivos, which opened on April 7. Goss titled the exhibition, “The Final Eden: Early Images of the Santa Barbara Region,” because it is his thesis that the paradise that once was California, a land of boundless resources and unlimited opportunities, has shrunk through urbanization and exploitation, and the Central Coast, not yet paved over, is “the Final Eden.”
Read MoreA new exhibition at the Wildling Art Museum in Los Olivos, “Picturing the Wilderness: Photographs by Josef Muench, Macduff Everton, and David Maisel,” opened on January 26. Karen Sinsheimer, Curator of Photography at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, who organized this exhibition for the Wildling, selected these three artists for their different points of view on the wilderness subject.
Read MoreThe American wilderness, as seen through the eyes of artists over the last two centuries, was featured in a new exhibition at the Wildling Art Museum in Los Olivos, which begun on October 20. More than 30 works by well-known artists, including John James Audubon, Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Moran, Charles Russell, and Ansel Adams, were exhibited.
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